The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Colour of light shown by lamps and reflectors (including reflectors on rear markings and signs on buses carrying children)

4.  After regulation 17 of the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted—

“Signs on buses carrying children

17A.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not use or cause or permit to be used on a road a bus when it is carrying a child to or from his school unless—

(a) a prescribed sign is fitted to the front of the bus and is plainly visible to road users ahead of the bus; and

(b) a prescribed sign is fitted to the rear of the bus and is plainly visible to road users behind the bus.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply—

(a) where a bus is on a bus service of a description specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 11A (bus services specified for the purposes of regulation 48A(5))(1) of the Construction and Use Regulations; or

(b) where a bus is the property of an Education and Library Board and is painted in the distinctive livery of that Board.

(3) A prescribed sign shall be removed while any bus to which it has been fitted is being used for purposes other than carrying a child to or from his school.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) a reference to a bus carrying a child to or from his school is a reference to a bus carrying a child—

(i) to, or to a place within the vicinity of, his school on a day during term time before he has attended the school on that day; or

(ii) from, or from a place within the vicinity of, his school on a day during term time after he has finished attending the school on that day;

(b) “school” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(2); and

(c) a reference to a child is a reference to a child under the age of 16 years.”

(1)

Regulation 48A and Schedule 11A were inserted into the Construction and Use Regulations by Regulations 5 and 6 of S.R. 1996 No. 275

(2)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)